AT&S

We visited AT&S, an Austrian own business sector, that produces electronic circuit boards. This company manufactures pretty much every electronic circuit board you could think of; from the circuit board in the cell phones to computers to the cruise control function in the cars.

The supply chain management at AT&S is global. They import cooper sheets from Hangzhou, China and the board, which puts in between the two copper sheets, from Taiwan. They drill holes into the board and furnish it to meet customers’ specifications. AT&S does not do any assembly of the components of the board. While we were there, we saw a circuit board produced for Siemens, which I thought was interesting. This visit reminds me the Globalization 1.0 in Friedman’s book where the world drives the integration. The final product of AT&S is an integrated global product that is owned by an Austrian company manufactured in India with suppliers in China and Taiwan, and their customers around the world. Below is a picture taken in front of AT&S.